I am totally pumped to have my parking pass for the Friday events, where I will be joining members of Cycling Canada to promote Canada's national cycling education program, CAN-BIKE. Cycling Canada is expecting to spread the good news about cycling to the 1,400 Grade 6 and 7 students from southern Ontario who will be visiting the facility during the events Friday.

This Milton event is the third round of the five-round event. The world's best track cyclists — from Canada, Great Britain, U.S.A., Australia, France, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Ukraine and China, among others — started this process in Pruszkow, Poland, then went on to Manchester, England, are bringing this event to Milton this weekend (for the first time that Canada has had the opportunity to host the Track Cycling World Cup), and continue on to Santiago, Chile, in the new year, and then the final round in Minsk, Belarus.

The Friday events include qualifying rounds, heats and finals for the men's and women's points race, and qualifying rounds for the team pursuit.

If you have never experienced the excitement of watching highly toned athletes translate their raw power into speed on a banked tank, you should come. The tickets are shockingly affordable: as little as $6 for seniors for a morning session.